Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Your Top 5 iOS Apps For Music Creation
Ok, so you've only got a choice of 5 apps for iOS music creation. From start to finished product ready for release. Which ones would you choose?
Mine would be/are
NS2 (easy workflow and it's got slate and obsidian)
Drambo (can do just about anything and everything)
Koala (does all the sampling I could need)
Synthmaster 2 (versatility and sheer amount of sounds)
Trinity (great little mastering tool)
Comments
Riffler, Rock Drum Machine, AudioLayer, AUM, Cubasis 3.
It's the foundation of all my music.
1.garageband
2.garageband
3.garageband
4.garageband
5.garageband
Ah, it's that time again for one of these threads, lol. Then again, my tastes often change with time and the genre(s) I'm producing.
If you would've asked me last summer, I would've said, "AUM, Gauss, Rymdigare, PaulXStretch, and Zeeon" as I was heavily into producing live Ambient. Last Fall? NS2 (which includes Slate and Obsidian), Cubasis 3 (which has the Waves Tune RT IAP), MagicDeathEyeStereo, BarkFilter, and Barricade as I was heavily into producing EDM.
Now that I'm working within Lofi and other Hip Hop genres, I use more than 5 apps, but if I had to widdle it down to 5, then FLSM, AUM, RX950, MagicDeathEyeStereo, and Barricade. But I use so much more for the Lofi processing but can get away with just those five.
Gadget
AUM
Module Pro
Scaler
Loopy Pro
And… number 6 - Ableton Live… 😬
AUM, MiRack, Other Desert Cities, Gauss, Mononoke.
But really, I’d also add in Blackhole, Rymdigare, Rozeta and Fluss. And Retro Piano, thinking about it.
If I had to pick just one, it’d be MiRack.
AUM
Drambo
LK
Koala
Sitala
Gadget, Drambo, NS2.
AUM
LK
Koala
PaulXStretch
Tape Pro
I have been awol from iOS A-Z production for quite a while now (I use it for desktop sample fodder) but just got caught up on the stuff Bleass has been doing the past couple years and would be tempted to roll some of that into BM3 and/or NS2.
This seems to be a solid list...
Thanks
+100 Auv3 as sound sources and FXs
That's cheating 😆
“ready for release” might be hard with only 5 apps. iOS isn’t great on mastering apps, and that alone could easily take up all 5 slots.
Other than that I’d probably choose 5 different ones every time I thought about it. Too difficult to pick 5 and stick to them.
Note
Groovebox
Cubasis
Pro-Q
Pro-L
5!
1 Drambo
2 Ableton Note
3 ns2
4 gadget
5 gr-16
Pure Acid
Launchpad
Groovebox
Blocs Wave
Looperator
These are always so hard for me. But I’d say Dawnbeat/Koala, CB3, PaulXStretch, Mela 3, Drambo.
Though I’m tempted to trade Drambo for a tape effects app.
Cubasis
Garageband (for the instruments)
Audiolayer
Smoov
Youlean LM Lite
I love AUM too but use it for prototyping and jamming, and ultimately anything worthwhile ends up in Cubasis.
Loopy Pro
Cubasis
Gadget
DrumComputer
NS2
Everything changes with time😊For quick sketches on the road, the Korg Gadjet is very convenient. For experiments the great AUM😉As a sequencer and a starting point for studying modules-Drambo. From synthesizers-Animoog Z. From sequencers-Eucledian and Progressions by Paul 4Pickets. There are many effects-I will not list them☝️
Forgot. Of course, Loopy Pro.
Gadget and YouTube
Loopy Pro
Audulus
AUM
Nembrini Amps
ChowMatrix
For getting songs finished:
MultiTrackStudio, loaded with my collection of SoundFonts
StaffPad
GarageBand (drums)
Loopy Pro (retrospective recording for nailing guitar parts)
Xequence 2 (for arranging the MIDI of longer pieces)
apeMatrix
AUM
GeoShred
Looperator
ZOA
Gadget would be enough
AUM AEM Loopy Pro Magic Death Eye Stereo Barricade
Couldn’t even imagine to choose 5 without any category.
I really take what I need in the moment to come close to what I want.
So everything from the last 3-4 years is on top stuff for iOS quality . Some are better…
…from some you don’t get everything you need under one hood.
That’s the point how to choose five, if it takes 10 apps…..
(sequencer/synth/extern modulation, because the most of the incl. ones are not from this century🥴)/
a bunch of Fx (in this case, you always need what’s not available for iOS)
…..to get a modern time (2020-2023) synth.
I don’t know when Serum came out…but I think….honestly….the first version was more complex as most of the synth out there on iOS.
Don’t get me wrong…I love this whole iOS iPad world🙏🏽🖤🙏🏽🖤🙏🏽
AUM
FAC Alteza
Rozeta
FRMS
Decent Sampler
Would really be interesting to also know what genre/kind of music you all make with your top 5. Would it be possible to post a sample of your music as well?